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By Fumio Nagata* We are an Iwate Prefecture citizens’ group opposed to the operation of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant in Aomori Prefecture. We are concerned about the ocean being polluted with radioactive liquid waste...
On September 7th the Minister of Economy Trade and Industry approved Kyushu Electric Power Company’s pluthermal1 plan for Genkai-3. This followed favorable reports by the Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC) on 29 August and by the...
On August 16th all three reactors tripped automatically at Tohoku Electric Power Company’s Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant in response to a magnitude 7.2 earthquake off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture. The direct reason...
60th anniversary of the atomic bombing Two years after the bomb was dropped, Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, said, “physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot...
From time to time NGOs are invited to send representatives to government policy committees and the like. Frequently, they do so knowing full well that they will be marginalized and that their proposals won’t...
By Tetsuo Maeda (Journalist) Not many people devote half their life to writing a single book. Life is too short to operate on that basis. Most writers are like butterflies, flitting from one flower...
On June 8th it was confirmed that there had been yet another leak from the spent fuel storage pool (Figure 1) at the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant. The location of the leak was a corner...
On June 12th the Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC) announced that it is considering sending 290 cubic meters of ‘uranium-contaminated soil’1 to the US. This ‘soil’ has been left abandoned near Ningyo Toge2, near...
reconfirms declaration for nuclear phase-out and suspension of construction of Taiwan Nuclear Power Plant No. 4 The No Nukes Asia Forum (NNAF) was held from June 2nd to 8th in Taipei, Taiwan. There was...
“OK. They’ve won their court case. Now perhaps they can let Monju go.” Thus spoke CNIC Co-Director Baku Nishio, attempting to put a favorable light on the Supreme Court’s rejection of the twenty-year struggle...